Lucknow, May 14: Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to include the expenses of roadshows in the candidates account and ban temple visits. She said that holding roadshows and visiting temples have become a ‘fashion' during elections and a huge amount of money is spent on this. She demanded that media should be banned from covering these roadshows and temple visits.

She said that people know the ground reality and she can sense the change in thinking of people. "Even the RSS seems to have stopped supporting the BJP in the middle of elections and ‘swayamsevaks' (RSS volunteers) are no longer seen working in the field," she pointed out.